Calling my Great Plains/Midwest Peeps: State your location!
I thought this would be a good opportunity for those of you locals to get to know eachother better. You can read my entry in the West / Desert Southwest sub forum here: http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1503908
I live in a suburb of Kansas City and work in KC proper. (I work for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.) No 3G at home yet and I work in a basement so I don't really get to enjoy the 3G there much either. Come on Tmo! Hurry up! :
I live in Westmont, IL currently. Western suburbs of Chicago in DuPage county. (land of republicans.) I can see the t-mobile tower out my patio window and still lose 3g in some spots. (The couch for one). Less than a mile away. Work part time and trying to go back to school. (Looks like may)
Southeast Kansas... spotty coverage at best, but got tired of Alltel customer support... "My name is Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, but you can call me Mike... Thank you! Come again!" - Now that Alltel is now Verizon, it still isn't my thing.
I live an work in Cook County Illinois. Signal intensity is good, but I have issues....
What kind of issues? I'm in the same area and am currently looking to switch from AT&T to TMobile. Not into the iPhone... Am I going to be disappointed with TMobile service. (Phone/3G service) Looking to get the G1... is this smart?
What kind of issues? I'm in the same area and am currently looking to switch from AT&T to TMobile. Not into the iPhone... Am I going to be disappointed with TMobile service. (Phone/3G service) Looking to get the G1... is this smart?
I go from western cook county to dupage and the only issue i get is the occasional switch from 3g to 2g. That happens a little. But the closer i get to the city, the less it happens. (Unless i am deep in a building). I don't get dropped calls, speeds are always good, and other than the rural parts of illinois, i am happy. Been with them since 2003. Is a LOT better now than even a year or two ago.
My communication with a friend of mine who uses US Cellular is a nightmare with T-Mobile. Occasional dropped calls would be OK, but lost text messages (10-30% by our estimation) are a serious problem, and often she has to call 4-5 times to get through to my phone (it either fails to connect or it goes right to my voice mail), even though I have not moved from my location during that time, and my phone shows four bars of signal the whole time she is trying to get through. She has also had trouble getting through to me on her land line on at least one occasion that I remember. She has no apparent problem with getting through to anyone else, and my interaction with T-Mobile customer service has been terrible, as I get the standard "You should contact US Cellular to inform them of the problem", even though I have stated that the problem has also occurred with land-line access to my phone.
I live in Kalamazoo, MI. Our data coverage here is ~75% GPRS, but I'm lucky that the tower I'm on at home (directly across the street) was upgraded to EDGE around a year ago. I've been with T-Mobile since September of 2005. My girlfriend just moved to the Metro Detroit area where I enjoy HSDPA 3G, although my speed has not been impressive so far...never seen higher than 400 kbit/s on download tests. Since the speed has not been great, the best part of 3G is simultaneous voice/data/SMS. The word on the street is that the Kalamazoo/Portage area will have 3G sometime during the first quarter of 2010, so here's hoping!
i live in Missouri and whiten 4 miles of a tmobile tower and after you drive 2 miles away from it you drop to GPRS i have tryed 3 dif phones they all do it
Lake Ozark - Osage Beach, Missouri (65065) Maps indicate 3G over the majority of Lake of the Ozarks but there is ONE tower I found with that capability. Everything else I connect as GPRS.
Lake Ozark - Osage Beach, Missouri (65065) Maps indicate 3G over the majority of Lake of the Ozarks but there is ONE tower I found with that capability. Everything else I connect as GPRS.
Beyond deception, T-Mobile.
Is it possible that its an area with 1900mhz 3g? That or its new coverage. (On a side note, the coverage map at t-mobile.com shows only part of the area in 3g while compass shows a LOT more. I bet its just not live yet. compass can be a bit delayed vs. reality.
Is it possible that its an area with 1900mhz 3g? That or its new coverage. (On a side note, the coverage map at t-mobile.com shows only part of the area in 3g while compass shows a LOT more. I bet its just not live yet. compass can be a bit delayed vs. reality.
I haven't seen 1900 on T-Mo in the Lake of the Ozarks referenced.
Understand compass. Coverage has shown active for > 3 months.
Map updates normally are made after coverage/ towers are online, so the data they provide is factual.
Perhaps the maps need another button selection - It's there, just not live yet.
In Columbia, MO the maps are accurate and service is ok.
I live in Northwest Indiana, but work in the City (e.g. Chicago for those not in the region). I have 4G /3G in pretty much all the areas I am in. Occasionally drop to edge. I have been with t-mo for at least 10 years and couldn't tell you the last time I dropped a call. I have been and remain very happy with t-mo service.
As for the G1, it is a great phone, for 2009, but very limited in memory and processor power now. Most of the ones you could get now are likely to be pretty beat up as well being so old. There are lots of other choices out there with more memory and processor that would be a better choice.
4/2/2012 - My Nexus One, after 2 years and thousands of rom flashes finally gave up the ghost. RIP to the best phone I ever owned.
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